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The internet is an excellent thing. You can now do all kinds of things from the comfort of your own home when you used to have to go to a store or put something in the post.
I now rent my DVDs online and they arrive through the post and I get my weekly groceries delivered to my door having ordered them from my number of favorites online gambling agency.
The internet makes things convenient. So when I forgot to buy my lottery ticket again and missed out on a small prize, I turned to the web for help. I was surprised at what I found!
There was as I expected the ability to purchase lottery tickets online from the UK's National Lottery website. Great! No longer did I have to fiddle around with cash or get soaked in the rain going to the store.
In fact they take good care of all of it - take the money through your banking account for the subscriptions automatically so that you never miss a draw, check your numbers for you without fail and pay you any winnings!
Paying you your winnings probably does not sound like a problem - but considering that the UK National Lottery began in 1994, unclaimed prizes have accumulated to more than Ł650 million [$1.17 billion]!
Checking that your numbers have won is probably the most useful service of all - because should you not claim it you don't get it!
A good service - convenient, easy and also fun.
Then a couple of months ago I found the next step on - an online lottery syndicate system!
Sure - the official national lottery website offers a syndicate management tool - but not like this one.
I looked at it rather sceptically as anyone having an economics degree might! But I went through the numbers to check anyway. I was impressed.
They operate syndicates with 49 members in each. Then they do something clever - they fix among the six numbers in order that each of the 49 numbers is covered and then with 5 other randomly generated numbers they generate 44 separate lines.
This is clever - it means that you can find 44 entries and effectively the syndicate only has to match 5 of the 6 lottery draw numbers to win the jackpot - since the sixth ball will always match.
But it is cleverer than that because the syndicate also wins more than the jackpot - another of the 44 lines will win 5 plus the bonus ball and after that of course the additional 42 lines also win by matching 5 numbers! Add all those multiple wins together and divide by the number in the syndicate and you win more than you could have done if you played solo!
In fact your odds of winning increases by 702% within the UK National Lottery Lotto draw!
And they have done the same trick with the EuroMillions draw. If you are not knowledgeable about this it really is as big as many of the multi-state lotteries in the United States of America. Why? Because 9 countries in Europe are playing it! And a lot more want to join in!
It is the largest tax-free lump-sum national lottery worldwide!
If you were watching the news earlier in 2006 you may have seen that it rose to an amazing Ł125m rollover (yes - that is in GBP not dollars or euros!)
Being a part on this lottery syndicate increases your prospects of winning by a staggering 3600%! Raising the odds of winning any prize to 1 in 10 and it means you can win a prize by matching just one ball!
So next time you are waiting in line to buy your lottery ticket, running the risk of losing it, or forgetting to check whether you have won, think of how the web can make it simpler for you.